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Minesweeper · Beat 72 · permalink

Ship

19:44–20:08 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:4819:48Frame at 19:5619:56Frame at 20:0120:01Frame at 20:0520:05

Play from 19:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 42 · shots 168–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • sailor in white hat and dark uniform, handling rope visible
  • man in light-colored civilian shirt and trousers, arms crossed visible
  • sailor in white hat and dark uniform, standing at attention visible
  • sailor in white hat and dark uniform, holding binoculars visible
Seen happening
  • Sailors turn their heads toward the horizon after the explosion. [frame:3]
  • Sailors on deck react to the explosion, some holding binoculars. [frame:4]
Seen
rope [frame:1], sailor uniforms [frame:1], binoculars [frame:4], ship deck [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval duty, military readiness, sudden danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A group of sailors in uniform are shown handling ropes and equipment on a ship's deck, with one man in civilian clothes observing. The scene includes a loud explosion sound effect at 20:00, followed by sailors reacting and looking toward the horizon.

“*BOOM*” 20:00 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Minesweeper (1943) at 19:48 (passage 19:44–20:08); US record: No renewal found

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